The Matrix
10 best books like The Matrix (Joshua Clover): Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons, Pedro Páramo, Los de abajo, A Modest Proposal, The Hounds of Tindalos, The Matrix: The Shooting Script, Fight Club, Inception: The Shooting Script, Braveheart, Tangled (Disney's Tangled)
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons
| Author | Stephen King |
| ISBN | 0896214400 |
"Remember that hope is a good thing, Red, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption is subtitled 'Hope Springs Eternal' - and that perfectly sums up the soul of his book.
It's hope that keeps you going - even after everything horrible...
| Author | Juan Rulfo |
| ISBN | 0802133908 |
A classic of Mexican modern literature about a haunted village.
As one enters Juan Rulfo's legendary novel, one follows a dusty road to a town of death. Time shifts from one consciousness to another in a hypnotic flow of dreams, desires, and memories, a world of ghosts dominated by the figure...
| Author | Mariano Azuela |
| ISBN | 0140266216 |
Durante la Revolución Mexicana, Mariano Azuela fue médico de la facción la que comandaba Francisco Villa, de ahí que algunas de sus más notables obras literarias estén inspiradas por aquellos hechos de armas. Entre todas ellas, Los de abajo, redactada en 1915 en El Paso (Texas), sintetiza admirablemente...
| Author | Jonathan Swift |
| ISBN | 1605977276 |
Last night my daughter asked me to watch what passes for comedy to pre-teens on Nickelodeon; a show low on laughs but high on laugh track. It's Halloween week and of course the thematic drum of cheap scares and slutty costumes (those of you dads that have 11 year old girls know what it is like to take a knee...
| Author | Frank Belknap Long |
| ISBN | 0515046558 |
Frank Belknap Long wrote a number of early Cthulhu Mythos stories. These included "The Hounds of Tindalos" (the 1st Mythos story written by anyone other than Lovecraft), The Horror from the Hills (which introduced the elephantine Great Old One Chaugnar Faugn to the Mythos) & "The Space-Eaters"...
| Author | Lana Wachowski |
| ISBN | 1557044902 |
4 stars. This was awesome. The Matrix trilogy are some of my all time favorite films so to find this screenplay was pretty cool. It's such an innovative and iconic sci-fi series and it's impossible to deny it's impact. The Wachowski's completely changed the game with these films and the way stories can...
| Author | Thomas E. Wartenberg |
| ISBN | 0415781892 |
Released in 1999, Fight Club is David Fincher's popular adaption of Chuck Palahniuk's cult novel, and one of the most philosophically rich films of recent years. This is the first book to explore the varied philosophical aspects of the film. Beginning with an introduction by the editor that places...
| Author | Christopher J. Nolan |
| ISBN | 1608870154 |
Inception, writer-director Christopher Nolan’s seventh feature film, joins the epic scope of The Dark Knight with the narrative sophistication of Memento. The story of a group of thieves who specialize in invading the mind through one’s dreams, Inception explores the Nolan’s signature...
| Author | Randall Wallace |
| ISBN | 0671522817 |
For love of country, for love of maiden, for love of freedom ... he became the hammer and scourge of England.
In one of history's darkest hours there arose from humble beginnings a man of courage and honor—the likes of whom the world may never see again. Amid the color, pageantry, and violence...
Tangled (Disney's Tangled)
Rapunzel is a girl with 70 feet of hair that glows and does magic when she sings. She was kidnapped as a child and kept in a tower by a woman claiming to be her mother who uses Rapunzel's magic to keep herself young and beautiful. Then one day a handsome cad climbs the tower, and Rapunzel coerces him to take her...
Cecily G. and the 9 Monkeys
| Author | H.A. Rey |
| ISBN | 0618800662 |
There is originality and a childlike humor in both the amusing antics and engaging pictures.” Booklist Cecily G. and the Nine Monkeys was the first book to feature Curious George, as well as being Hans and Margret Rey’s first book for children. In this initial effort, about a lonely giraffe...
